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Our celebrations should be carried along by the comradeship, the participation, and the sense of belonging of allconcerned. In this it already differs from the business like church celebration. The speaker should change atevery occasion. He should not always be the unit Leader or Senior Leader. A close friend or comrade is oftenmuch better equipped to do the honours.Invitations should only go to the actual participants. Any theatrical widening of this circle is being stronglycondemned.The following guidelines show an approved way of celebrating as true SS Men and women should. But everyfamily should find the form which finally is best suited to its circumstances within these guidelines.27. The Naming Of A ChildThe giving of the name is a family celebration, with only the closest family members present. Besides theparents there are only the closest relatives and some SS members which are close to the father.The father will give the name and an SS member will accept the child into the SS community.The giving of the name should happen in the family's home. The rooms should be decorated with greenery andflowers. The family will sit in a semicircle, the parents in the middle, the mother holding the child.The one who gives the name speaks first. The father can ask another member of the family to do this for him.The speech should be short and simple, thanking the mother and connecting the name to the child. Therefore theright choice of the name is of the greatest importance.Please do read the book of names by B. V. Selchow, which is a collection of good old German names, gives theirmeaning, and has a section on foreign names and their country of origin, to forewarn against their use.The SS member will now receive the child into the SS community. He too will speak simply as a friend of thefather. Thoughts he might speak on are:1. The rising Germany in which this child will grow up2. The love of The Leader for all children3. The reverence The Leader feels for the mothers4. The deed of the woman for the increase of the Folk5. The duties of SS members within the wider SS family.He than gives a small gift to the mother. This could be an Ancestry Book or a piece of jewellery such as abrooch. In some areas of Germany (Schleswig-Holstein, Köln) every SS Company owns some cradles, which arebrought to the house of the newly born. Very needy families get a free layette, and every baby's name isengraved on the cradle.The celebration is brought to a happy end with either a festive meal or a nice chat around the coffee table. Somelight music may be played.The birth of the child and the giving of the name is remembered on every birthday. The child should be given itsown Jul Plate during the day of the name giving, which is used on every birthday and for every great celebrationthroughout the years.28. The Enrolling Into The Young Folk Or Young Maidens, And The Entering Into The Hitler Youth Or LeagueOf German Girls
The Life Turning PointYouth celebrating their turning 14 years of age and their consequent induction into the youth organisations of Germany.At the age of 10 years, and again at the age of 14 years, the young German takes important steps for their future.They make their first promise at 10, and swear their first oath of obedience to The Leader at 14. They alsobecome members of the appropriate political organisations. There they will be educated within the circle of theircomrades, which will enable them to swear their final oath to The Leader. These two important days in the life ofthe young boys and girls will become annual celebrations for their National Socialist families.The church chooses these ages of the children for their first communion and confirmation. But a great amount ofattention and expectations of the child centres on the new suit, the new dress, the new prayer book, the presentfrom the godparents. The 10 year old will understand hardly anything of the happenings in the church, and the 14year old will understand not much more.But the son and the daughter of a National Socialist parent will know exactly what is happening to them, whenon the 19th of April, the evening before The Leader's birthday, wearing the smart and beautiful uniform of theYoung Folk or the Young Maidens, after the singing of a solemn song and listening to the comradely speech oftheir Section Leader, they all proclaim together with thousands of others in the Reich:”I promise to do my duty in the German Young Folk / Young Maidens with love and loyalty to The Leader and toour flag, so help me God."When the boy proclaims this, he sees a new world light up to which he now belongs, a world of Armydrums, trumpets, marching comrades, flags, and Leaders.The Oath Of Allegiance To The LeaderThis Oath was taken by Henry Simmoleit when he joined the Hitler Youth at 14 years of age. The Citation is dated 28thMarch, 1943. Many Oaths were taken at the time of Adolf Hitler's birthday, 19/20th of AprilThe parents stand by and are happy that they were able to give to The Leader the best birthday present they could
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Page 6 and 7: The SS TreeThe typical SS Yuletide
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